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Your seed may grow. But if you have other squash/pumpkins in your garden there is no telling what you will get. My favorite, butternut squash, crossed with some other curcubit in my garden. The result was a golden watermelon shaped fruit that I had to use an ax on to split it open. It was...

How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons has pages of tables for proper vegetable spacing plus tons of other useful information. I consider it my gardening bible.

I did a lasagna type of a garden when I lived in Tucson. I dug a pit 3'x15', 18 inches deep, for each bed and layered into it everything organic I could get my hands on, cardboard, straw, palm branches, some native soil, garbage produce from a vegetable market, soil amendments,etc, more...

Hi I'm new to this gardening forum although not new to gardening. My present gardening location is presenting a new challenge to me. Supposedly I'm in zone 8. Arizona. That should be very nice for gardening, but the micro-climate in this valley between the two mountain ranges gives me...

well, If you throw your garden and kitchen scraps into the poultry yard, especially is you keep the yard covered with a straw mulch, your poultry will help turn all that stuff into compost for you with a whole lot less work on your part. Then every so often you rake the poultry yard out, add...

I harvested 75 pounds of potatoes from my 100 ft. bed. Then I planted another crop of beans in their stead. I garden in zone 8.

Stupice is a good short season variety. It open pollinated, so you can save your own seeds from year to year. The fruit is not large, only about 2 inches, but very flavorful. Also, if you fertilize with kelp that gives the plant a little frost resistance, definity cool weather vigor. Early...